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In the ultraclose quarters of A Red Orchid Theatre last year, Michael Shannon was ranting as the Broadway producer of the satirical "Mistakes Were Made" when he noticed an audience member reaching from his front-row seat to snatch a candy from a dish on the character's desk. "He couldn't help himself," recalled Shannon, an Oscar nominee for "Revolutionary Road" and co-star of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire." "He was hungry. I watched him do it. It was surreal." Shannon managed to not break character, which is what years of playing in tiny theaters will do for a professional actor. Such intimacy not only comes with the territory...

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